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I’ve Got Something That’s Real - 7/12/26 - Meadows Baptist Church - Pastor Charlie Branch · Meadows Baptist Church Podcast

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  Welcome to the podcast of Meadows
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  Baptist Church of Walnut Cove, North
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  Carolina. We're so glad you joined us
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  today. If you enjoy today's message, be
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  sure to subscribe, follow, and share
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  with your friends. Now, let's join
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  Pastor Charlie Branch with a word from
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  God.
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  I appreciate faithful men and uh
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  that uh have earned their honor and uh
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  believe as Paul said them that rule well
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  are worthy of double honor and uh and
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  you you honor the man of God today.
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  Thank you. Thank you preacher for your
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  faithful service through the years. And
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  u I tell you what, we got to stay with
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  it. Amen. Got to stay with it. And I
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  love how the Lord puts things together.
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  Acts chapter number 26. And I want to
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  read just three verses. If you will,
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  when you find your place, if you would
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  stand. Uh I know what time it is, but
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  you'll be all right. Somebody say amen.
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  >> And uh we're going to preach just as
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  long as the Lord wants us to. And uh be
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  honest with you, I didn't preach
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  Wednesday. I didn't preach last Sunday.
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  And uh just sort of feel weird just to
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  be real honest with you. Uh but uh I
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  tell you what, I'm glad to be back. And
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  I'll say this, and I told you this last
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  Sunday. I tell you this again, you ain't
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  gonna hear any better preaching we heard
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  last Sunday.
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  >> You ain't. Amen. And uh I appreciate the
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  man of God coming and sharing the word
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  of God with us. And uh but I'm here and
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  I'm going to preach. I'm going to do my
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  best. All right. So listen. All right.
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  So let's look in the text. Acts chapter
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  26. Did you find your place? Say amen.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Acts chapter 26. Notice verse number 27.
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  Acts chap 26 verse number 27. This is
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  the apostle Paul speaking in the text.
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  He says, "King Agria, believest thou the
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  prophets? I know that thou believest."
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  Verse 28, "Then Agria said unto Paul,
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  almost thou persuadeest me to be a
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  Christian." There's been a lot of
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  preaching down through the years done on
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  that verse. Almost. I tell you what,
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  it's a tragedy that so many people have
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  been to that place where it was an
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  almost. But you know what? A almost
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  ain't going to get you into heaven.
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  >> Listen to what the Bible said in verse
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  29. This is the thought for today. And
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  Paul said, 'I would to God that not only
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  thou, but also all that hear me this day
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  were both almost and all together,
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  notice these next four words, such as I
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  am, except these bonds.
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  And uh I want to pray, ask the Lord to
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  help us, give you the introduction, then
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  we'll give you the thought this morning.
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  You pray for me as we go to the Lord in
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  prayer. Father, thank you so much for
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  this great day, for your great
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  blessings, for the spirit of God that's
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  on the inside, for the power that he
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  gives. And Lord, we ask Lord right now
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  that you would remove the flesh far from
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  us. Clothe us in our calling. Father, I
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  ask you, Lord, that you would anoint me
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  with the Holy Ghost of God. set a watch
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  about my lips of clay this morning that
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  I'd say nothing that I ought not say but
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  everything that you would have me to say
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  and that you alone would get glory out
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  of this service. I pray that we would
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  see no man save Jesus only and that you
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  would help us to receive with meekness
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  the engrafted word. Open our eyes that
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  we may behold wondrous things in thy
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  law. And God, I pray more than anything
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  this morning, Lord, that you would be
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  exalted and this church, Lord, would be
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  edified and strengthened for the work
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  that you've called us to do. Lord, would
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  you help us this morning? We pray. Save
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  the sinner nearest hell. And for what
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  you do, we'll thank you for it because
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  we ask it in Jesus name. God's children
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  said, "Amen. Thank you for standing. You
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  may be seated this morning." Acts
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  chapter 26 opens up to us the passage of
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  the apostle Paul and his meeting with
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  King Agrippa who is the ruler over the
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  Jews at this point in time and the book
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  of acts. Paul has completed his first
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  and his second missionary journeys at
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  this point and he had set his heart
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  toward Jerusalem and when he went there
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  the Holy Ghost made him aware of the
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  fact that bonds and affliction he said
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  himself would abide him. when he got
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  there. And that's exactly what happened.
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  They placed him in hold when he arrived
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  there and they began to afflict him. And
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  really in in every case that they tried
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  to bring against him, they could bring
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  no accusation that had any proof with
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  it. I want to say this this morning, if
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  you're living right this morning and
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  doing right, there is nothing the world
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  can do about that. And you ought to
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  thank God for it. And you ought to
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  rejoice. Amen. You may have everybody
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  against you, but I'll tell you this. If
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  you do right, Amen. If the world falls,
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  just do right. And let me say this,
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  it'll be all right come the end. Amen.
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  But I notice in this text that Paul has
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  come to agria here in the text and the
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  Bible reveals to us. He has given his
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  testimony here in the text. We're going
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  to look back at that in just a few
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  minutes. But I notice here in the text
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  that Paul mentions the prophets. Now
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  verse 27, he says, "King Agria,
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  believest thou the prophets. I I know
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  that thou believest. This man Agrippa
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  was a wise man in Jewish culture. He was
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  a man who was schooled in Jewish custom.
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  The Bible literally tells us that in the
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  beginning of the chapter and Agria had
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  learned all of this so he could be
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  prepared to be king. And Paul says,
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  "Look, I know you've read it. You've
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  seen it. You know, Grippa that this is
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  true and you believe." In verse 28, Paul
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  here, Regria makes his response to Paul.
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  After he mentions the prophets, those
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  those prophecies that were given of
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  Christ, he p he speaks of his
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  persuasion. In verse 28, look what the
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  Bible says. Then a group of said unto
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  Paul, almost thou persuadest me to be a
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  Christian. Or such to say on the
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  intellectual side, the Apostle Paul, you
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  have laid the case so well that it is
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  definitely indeed uh striking to me that
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  this is true. And he says, "Almost, you
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  persuade me to be a Christian." I'll say
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  this this morning. It does not matter
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  how much intellectual ability you have
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  to lay the case before a sinner until
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  the Holy Ghost of God deals with their
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  heart and opens to them the word of God
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  and reveals to them that they have need
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  of salvation. They will not come to
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  Jesus. Amen. And we see that though
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  there was persuasion in the text, there
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  was no profession here in the text from
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  this man Agria. And I believe by this
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  text unless a grippa somewhere along
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  last way later on got saved. He's in
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  hell this very morning and he is there
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  burning. But that's not the message this
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  morning. I want you to notice verse
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  number 29. Paul's response to a gripper.
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  Look what the Bible says. He said, "I
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  would to God that not only thou, but
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  also all that hear me this day were both
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  almost and alltogether
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  such as I am."
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  You say, "Preacher, what does that
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  mean?" Well, Paul says basically, in
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  other words, he says, "I wish that I
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  could give you what I've got."
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  Amen. And from this preacher's heart
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  this morning, I wish I could give you
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  what I've got. I want to preach on this
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  thought for just a little while this
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  morning on I've got something that's
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  real.
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  Paul said in the text, he said, "I would
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  to God that not only thou, not only you,
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  Agrippa, but everybody that listens."
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  Agria's wife was there, Fesus was there,
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  all these others that are gathered
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  around. Paul says, "I would to God that
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  everybody in this building," he said,
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  "not," he said, "We're not both almost
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  and all together." He said, "All the way
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  just as I am, such as I am, except these
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  bonds." Paul says, "I wish every one of
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  you saved."
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  I want to say this to you this morning.
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  And I wish everybody in here had what I
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  got.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Right.
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  >> BUT YOU SAY, "PREACHER, WHAT IS IT
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  THAT'S REAL? How how can I know what
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  I've got is real?"
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  >> I think there's five things in this
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  chapter that we can take directly from
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  the text that'll tell us whether or not
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  what you've got's real. I want to say
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  this. If you ain't got something real in
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  this day and time, you ain't going to
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  make it.
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  >> John said it this way in his epistle,
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  brother Codwell. He said, "They went out
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  from us because they what? They were not
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  of us." Amen. And if you're not real
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  this morning, you're not going to make
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  it to very far in this race. And when I
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  look at this text, I'm reminded Paul
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  gives his testimony over and over and
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  over again. And he tells the story here
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  this morning. And and I want to
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  highlight just five things this morning
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  quickly and we'll be done this morning.
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  I know what time it is. Just buckle up.
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  All right? We going to preach. All
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  right? It's been a week. Somebody say,
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  "Amen. I'm going to turn loose for a few
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  minutes if nothing else. Amen. I notice
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  in this text, if what we got's real,
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  there's a place where it's going to have
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  to start. You know what? I believe in
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  this text, Paul reveals to us, number
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  one, that there must be, if it's going
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  to be real, there must be a supernatural
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  conversion.
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  >> Say, "What do you mean, preacher?" Well,
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  the Bible says here in the text after
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  Paul describes, we mentioned it in
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  Sunday school, he describes his will to
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  them in verse 9, that he thought to do
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  many things contrary to Jesus Christ of
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  Nazareth. His works is described in
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  verse number 10 that he put saints to
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  death. He punished them often. Verse
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  number 11, verse 12, he was on his way
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  to Damascus. You know, he had those
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  letters of approval from the chief
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  priest in his hand to persecute
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  Christians. And we notice that after his
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  will and his works, he is working
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  against the kingdom of God and standing
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  against Jesus. You see, there was one
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  day that a wonder met him right before
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  his eyes. In verse 13, he said, "At
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  midday, oh king, I saw in the way a
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  light from heaven above the brightness
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  of the sun, shining round about me, and
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  with them which journey with me." And
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  notice the word that was given unto him.
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  And when we were all fallen to the
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  earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me
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  and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul,
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  Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is
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  hard for thee to kick against the
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  priests. You say, preacher, what is
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  that? Well, that day on the Damascus
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  ROAD, PAUL MET FACE TO FACE WITH THE
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  VERY WORD OF GOD HIMSELF. AMEN. Jesus
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  Christ incarnate showed up in his way of
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  life. Amen. LET ME SAY THIS. JESUS WOULD
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  HAVE HAD JUST AS MUCH RIGHT TO TAKE HIS
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  LIFE ON DAMASCUS ROAD. But friend, HE
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  DIDN'T TAKE HIS LIFE. HE SAVED HIS LIFE.
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  AMEN. Because the son of man came to
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  give life and life more abundantly. And
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  there on that road that day, that light
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  that shined from heaven shine down into
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  the heart of THE APOSTLE BY PAUL WHO
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  THEN WAS SAUL. AMEN. And in the text,
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  the Bible says that this word brought
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  about salvation. Verse 15, notice what
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  your Bible SAID. PAUL SAID, "WHO ART
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  THOU LORD?"
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  You see, he was calling that one he was
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  looking at
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  >> Lord. I've had people ask me this,
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  "Preacher, where was it that Paul prayed
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  and asked Jesus to forgive him?" Well,
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  you see, it's all wrapped up in that
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  word Lord.
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  >> Right?
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  >> You see, when he heard the word of God,
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  it wasn't time to pray. He knew what
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  he'd done.
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  >> Amen. When he heard the word of God, he
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  knew exactly who was speaking. So you
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  know what his response was? Lord,
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  >> you see he revealed in this text the
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  repentance in his heart. You say, "What
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  is that?" Well, for a conversion number,
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  the first thing that there's got to be
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  Christ has got to be present. Hey
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  friend, if you've got saved, you ain't
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  got saved by any other person or any
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  other book. Amen. Than Christ the word
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  himself. Amen. For whosoever shall call
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  upon the name of the Lord, what is that
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  name? That is Jesus Christ. Amen. PETER
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  SAID IT THIS WAY IN ACTS CHAPTER 4. For
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  there's none other name under heaven
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  given AMONG MEN WHEREBY YOU MUST BE
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  SAVED WHICH IS Jesus Christ. Amen. That
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  is the one who is present for his
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  conversion. And out of Christ being
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  present there was a change that was
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  purposed. In the text the Bible said in
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  verse 15 after he responds Jesus said I
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  am Jesus whom thou persecutest. Verse 16
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  notice this. But rise. You see, out of
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  that supernatural conversion, there is a
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  sovereign commission.
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  >> You see, if what you got's real, first
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  of all, you going to have to be
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  converted. Amen. You'll have to be
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  saved. Amen. For the heart man believeth
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  under righteous with a mouth confession
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  is made unto salvation. And before that
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  happens, nothing else going to happen in
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  your life. But I'll say this. You say,
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  "Preacher, well, I I believe I'm saved."
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  Let me ask you something. There's some
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  things that come along after salvation
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  that come along to all of us. You say,
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  "Preacher, well, I'm not I'm not called
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  to preach." Well, you understand there
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  is a call that's in the heart of every
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  child of God who is born again, and that
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  is a call to serve.
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  >> Amen. Paul said to the Roman church in
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  Romans chapter 12, he said, "I beseech
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  you therefore, brethren, by the mercies
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  of God, that you present your bodies a
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  living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto
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  God, which is your reasonable service."
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  You see in the text, Jesus here meets
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  him and changes him in a moment. Amen.
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  And out of that conversion, there is a
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  commission. Verse 16. But rise and stand
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  upon thy feet. For I have appeared unto
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  thee for this purpose, to make thee a
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  minister and a witness, both of these
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  things which thou has seen, and of those
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  things in the which I will appear unto
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  thee. You see, this commission brought a
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  deliverance to him. Verse 17, look what
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  the Bible says. Delivering thee from the
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  people and from the Gentiles. You say,
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  preacher, what is that? WELL, I'LL SAY
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  THIS. SALVATION will save you from hell.
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  Amen. But that commission, what it'll do
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  for you is it'll deliver you from the
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  world.
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  >> Amen. Hey, if you're still living in the
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  world, you're still yolked up with this
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  world, YOU'RE STILL LOOKING, ACTING, AND
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  TALKING LIKE THE WORLD. AMEN. YOU MAY
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  NOT ever been delivered.
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  >> He told Paul in the text, he told Saul,
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  he said, "Look, I'm delivering thee."
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  Notice this. From the people and from
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  the Gentiles. You know what we were when
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  we were lost? Amen. Preacher preached
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  about it last Sunday. We were in
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  bondage. Amen. We were serving this old
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  sinful world. We were serving our flesh.
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  We were serving the devil. We were
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  serving this world. Amen. And out of
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  this, Paul is Saul is given deliverance.
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  Delivering thee from the people and from
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  the Gentiles. But isn't it interesting?
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  Amen. When that deliverance comes,
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  there's a new direction that takes
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  place. Notice the last part of the
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  verse. Your Bible says that he delivered
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  thee from the people and from the
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  Gentiles. Notice this. unto whom now I
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  send thee. You know why God saved you?
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  You know why God commissioned you to
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  serve him? Because the same world he's
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  delivered you out of is the same world
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  he wants to send you back into.
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  >> Amen. The same people, the same crowd,
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  amen, that you used to run with when you
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  was in this world. Oh, I feel HAPPY THIS
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  MORNING. THE SAME PEOPLE THAT you used
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  to sin with, the same crowd THAT YOU
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  USED TO FOLLOW. You see, Jesus brought
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  YOU OUT THAT HE MIGHT SEND YOU BACK.
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  AMEN. Not for them to influence you, BUT
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  FOR YOU TO INFLUENCE THEM WITH WHAT?
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  With the gospel. With the GOOD NEWS OF
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  JESUS CHRIST. PAUL SAID, "HE TOOK ME
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  OUT." OH, BUT HE SENT ME RIGHT BACK.
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  WHY? BECAUSE HE MADE A DIFFERENCE ON THE
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  INSIDE. AMEN.
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  >> And if you ain't never been delivered
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  from THIS WORLD AND HAD YOUR DIRECTION
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  CHANGED, I doubt you got anything real.
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  Amen. Hey, friend, if you've never
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  turned from sin, Amen. Paul told that
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  THESSALONIAN CHURCH, IT'S WHAT HE SAID.
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  HE SAID, "YOU TURN TO GOD FROM IDOLS."
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  AMEN. And you know what they did? THEY
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  TURNED TO GOD FROM IDOLS TO SERVE THE
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  living and true God. Amen. And it was
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  that deliverance that gave them a new
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  direction. Amen.
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  I've got something that's real.
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  >> Oh, friend, I've been delivered.
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  Hallelujah. Bless his name. I'll tell
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  you this. I've got a new direction. I'm
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  not going to this world for sin, but I'm
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  going to this world with salvation.
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  Amen.
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  >> Oh, bless his name. You see, he gave him
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  a new direction. Look what he says. Unto
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  whom now I send thee. Verse 18, to open
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  their eyes. What happened to Paul? He
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  had to have his eyes open, didn't he?
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  That light blinded him. You know what he
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  had to do? He had to go find Ananas.
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  Amen. Have his sight be given to him.
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  But you know, you see that's not the
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  physical, that's not the truth of the
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  text. It's the spiritual truth. Amen. is
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  that open the spiritual eyes to open
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  their eyes to turn them from darkness to
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  light from the power of Satan unto God
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  that they may receive forgiveness of
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  sins and inheritance among them which
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  are sanctified by faith that is in me.
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  You see, friend, if you've got something
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  that's real, I can promise you this
• 17:15
  morning, there has been a supernatural
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  conversion just like the Apostle Paul.
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  BUT THERE WILL BE AND I PROMISE YOU
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  THERE WILL BE AND THERE IS A SOVEREIGN
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  COMMISSION ON YOUR life this morning.
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  I say this thirdly. All right. If you
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  ain't help me preach up to this point,
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  you definitely ain't going to help me
• 17:33
  now. All right,
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  y'all. All right. Y'all better than 3:00
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  in the morning. Wake up. All right, we
• 17:39
  going to preach.
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  You see, there's a sovereign there's a
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  supernatural conversion. There's a
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  sovereign commission. But I think about
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  this. I say this thirdly, we see in
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  Paul's life, there's a simple
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  compliance. You say, "What do you mean,
• 17:53
  preacher?" Well, you see, God saved HIM.
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  GOD SENT HIM out to serve. But what
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  happens now? The Bible said in verse 19,
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  look what he says to Agria. Whereupon,
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  oh king Agria, I was not disobedient.
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  Notice that I was not disobedient unto
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  the heavenly vision, but showed first
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  unto them of Damascus and at Jerusalem
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  and throughout all the coast of Judea,
• 18:15
  and then to the Gentiles that they
• 18:17
  should repent and turn to God and do
• 18:19
  works meat for repentance. You see, when
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  God gave him the commission, his heart
• 18:24
  was WILLFULLY COMPLIANT. LET ME SAY this
• 18:26
  to you, friend. If you've ever felt the
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  call of God on your life, if you've ever
• 18:30
  felt the move of God on your life, there
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  is only one response that you can have,
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  and that's Lord, whatever you want me to
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  do, I'LL DO IT. LORD, WHEREVER YOU WANT
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  ME TO GO, I'LL GO. LORD, WHATEVER,
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  HOWEVER, WHENEVER, WHEREVER, LORD, I AM
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  WILLING. AMEN.
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  >> SAID, "PREACHER, WELL, I don't want to
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  do those things." Well, you may not be
• 18:50
  real.
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  I tell you this, I told a young man this
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  week, I said, "If it's God's will, you
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  won't be able to get away from it. But
• 18:59
  if it's not, you'll be miserable if you
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  try to."
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  Let me tell you something. God has given
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  a command. Amen. And this command
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  requires compliance. Amen. We are to be
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  obedient. You see, Paul was obedient to
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  this commission that he went to all the
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  places. You think about, you say,
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  "Preacher, well, how is that the
• 19:20
  commission?" Well, remember what Acts 18
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  says. He said, "And you shall receive
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  power after that the Holy Ghost has come
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  upon you, and you shall be witnesses
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  unto me, Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria,
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  unto the uttermost parts of the earth."
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  You know what? Paul wasn't Saul wasn't
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  there when they said Acts 18, was he? He
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  wasn't there for that. But you know
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  what? When he got saved, he got the same
• 19:44
  commission they did as anybody in the
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  building. This morning I'm saying,
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  friend, if you're SAVED BY THE GRACE OF
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  GOD, YOU'VE GOT THE SAME commission and
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  you should have the same compliance.
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  >> You say, "Preacher, I know I'm saved and
• 19:59
  I know God wants me to do something, BUT
• 20:01
  I'M JUST NOT I'M NOT REALLY sure about
• 20:02
  it yet." Well, let me tell you this. If
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  you're not serving him, you ain't got no
• 20:06
  rights to assurance of your salvation.
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  You got to be right with him.
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  >> You know why people struggle with
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  doubts? Because they're not living for
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  them.
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  Amen, friend. That's right. You see, he
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  was complying in the places, but I'll
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  say this. He was complying in his
• 20:23
  preaching. He said that they should
• 20:25
  repent. Let me say this. Repentance is I
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  listen to me, friend. You better not If
• 20:30
  you miss everything else I say, do not
• 20:32
  miss what I'm fixing to tell you this
• 20:34
  morning. Repentance is still necessary
• 20:37
  for salvation. If there is no
• 20:39
  repentance, Milton Taylor said it this
• 20:41
  way. THERE IS NO REGENERATION. THAT
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  MEANS there is no salvation. If you
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  don't realize that you're a sinner and
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  repent of that sin, YOU CANNOT YOU
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  CANNOT YOU WILL NOT BE SAVED, FRIEND.
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  >> And the GOSPEL IS A GOSPEL OF
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  REPENTANCE.
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  >> He said you turn to God from us. YOU GOT
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  TO TURN AWAY FROM THIS WORLD. YOU GOT TO
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  LET GO OF THE WORLD. YOU GOT TO LET GO
• 21:09
  OF YOUR FLESH. YOU GOT TO LET GO OF
• 21:11
  YOURSELF. YOU CAN'T HANG ON TO JESUS AND
• 21:13
  HANG ON TO THIS WORLD. IF YOU'VE NEVER
• 21:15
  BEEN SAVED, FRIEND, IF YOU'VE NEVER
• 21:17
  REPENTED OF YOUR SINS, THAT IS THE
• 21:19
  GOSPEL MESSAGE. THAT IS THE REAL message
• 21:23
  of truth
• 21:25
  that they should repent. Notice this.
• 21:27
  And turn to God. And do works. Notice
• 21:30
  that. And do works. Paul said, "I'm
• 21:33
  preaching exactly what I'm doing." Amen.
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  And do works. What'd he say? Meet for
• 21:40
  repentance. I'll say this. I've got
• 21:44
  something that's real. Oh, hallelujah.
• 21:47
  Because I've been supernaturally
• 21:48
  converted. I've been sovereignly
• 21:51
  commissioned. But I'll tell you this,
• 21:54
  I'm just simply compliant to whatever he
• 21:56
  asks.
• 21:58
  You say, "Preacher, can you really
• 22:00
  honestly say that I had to pray before I
• 22:01
  preach this sermon to settle it? Because
• 22:04
  you know what? I want my heart that way.
• 22:06
  If God wants me to go up there to Canada
• 22:08
  with this brother, you know what? I'm
• 22:09
  going to do my best to go. If God wants
• 22:12
  me to go across the sea over there to
• 22:13
  Africa, amen, and go over there and
• 22:15
  preach in the jungle somewhere, I'm
• 22:17
  gonna do my best to go. If God wants me
• 22:20
  to move states and preach somewhere
• 22:21
  else, if God wants me to spend THE REST
• 22:24
  OF MY LIFE in this pullpit, IN THIS
• 22:26
  PLACE, PASTORING THIS CHURCH, I JUST
• 22:29
  WANT TO DO WHAT GOD SAYS. YOU SEE,
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  THAT'S THE MOST SIMPLE WAY TO LIVE. WHEN
• 22:33
  YOU JUST LEAVE IT UP TO GOD, GOD, WHAT
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  YOU'VE TOLD ME, THAT'S WHAT I'M GOING TO
• 22:37
  DO UNTIL YOU TELL ME TO DO SOMETHING
• 22:39
  DIFFERENT. SOMEBODY HELP ME PREACH THIS
• 22:40
  MORNING. YOU JUST DO WHAT GOD SAYS UNTIL
• 22:43
  GOD TELLS YOU TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
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  AMEN.
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  >> You walk in THE LIGHT THAT GOD HAS GIVEN
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  YOU FOR TODAY and he'll give you new
• 22:51
  LIFE FOR TOMORROW AND HE'LL GIVE YOU NEW
• 22:53
  LIFE for the NEXT DAY, BUT YOU WALK IN
• 22:56
  WHAT HE SHOWED YOU TODAY AND DO WHAT YOU
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  KNOW YOU ARE supposed to do before him
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  today.
• 23:03
  He was simply compliant. I like this
• 23:07
  one. All right, I'm moving. We still
• 23:09
  going to get out of here a decent time.
• 23:12
  Y'all dead. I'm just going to take how
• 23:13
  long I want. Amen.
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  I'm serious. Amen. I'm going to take how
• 23:19
  long I want.
• 23:21
  It's been too long, Sister Biddy.
• 23:23
  You see, fourthly, I see out of this
• 23:25
  simple compliance, Paul mentions
• 23:27
  something else in this text. Remember,
• 23:29
  he's testifying all this to a grippa. He
• 23:31
  says, "I want all of you to be such as I
• 23:33
  am." Well, this is what Paul is. He's
• 23:35
  been converted. He's been commissioned.
• 23:38
  He's compliant. But see that, notice
• 23:39
  this fourthly, verse number 21, he says,
• 23:42
  "For these causes the Jews caught me in
• 23:44
  the temple and went about to kill me."
• 23:46
  Verse 22, "Having therefore obtained
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  help of God." What's the next two words?
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  I continue.
• 23:53
  You see, Paul was steadily continuing.
• 23:57
  He had steady continuence in his life.
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  You want to know if what you got's real?
• 24:03
  You're staying with it.
• 24:06
  You're not in and out. In and out.
• 24:13
  You don't know what you got's real. It's
• 24:15
  going to take some faithful continuing.
• 24:18
  You say, "How how do you express that?"
• 24:20
  Well, turn with me to the book of
• 24:21
  Romans.
• 24:26
  Romans,
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  chapter number three.
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  Listen to what he says. Actually,
• 24:42
  Romans, I think it's Romans, maybe it's
• 24:44
  Romans 2. Let's look here. Yeah, Romans
• 24:46
  2, verse number
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  verse number five. Notice this. Paul's
• 24:52
  talking to the Jews. All right. He's
• 24:54
  talking to everybody in chapter 2.
• 24:56
  Chapter 3 talks to the Jews. Look what
• 24:58
  he says. Verse number five. But after
• 25:00
  thy hardness and impenitent heart,
• 25:02
  treasures up in thyself wrath against
• 25:04
  the day of wrath, and revelation of the
• 25:06
  righteous judgment of God, who will
• 25:08
  render to every man according to his
• 25:09
  deeds. Notice verse seven. To them who
• 25:12
  by patient what? Continuence in what?
• 25:17
  Welldoing, seek for glory and honor and
• 25:20
  immortality, eternal life. But unto them
• 25:23
  that are contentious, and do not obey
• 25:25
  the truth, but obey unrighteousness,
• 25:28
  indignation, and wrath, tribulation, and
• 25:29
  anguish upon every soul of man that
• 25:31
  doeth evil of the Jew first, and also of
• 25:34
  the Gentile, but glory and honor and
• 25:37
  peace to every man that workketh good to
• 25:39
  the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.
• 25:41
  For there is no respect of persons with
• 25:44
  God. Patient continuous. You know what?
• 25:48
  God honors faithfulness.
• 25:51
  He's not so much interested about the
• 25:53
  size of what you got going on as he is
• 25:57
  interested in you being steady with.
• 26:00
  >> Amen.
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  >> He's not so much interested about the
• 26:03
  quantity. You hear me say all the time,
• 26:05
  he is interested in the quality of your
• 26:08
  ministry, of your Christian life. Hey
• 26:10
  friend, and that's going to require you.
• 26:12
  That's going to cost you something if
• 26:14
  you're going to steadily continue. Paul
• 26:17
  said it there in Acts chapter number 20.
• 26:19
  He said, "But none of these things move
• 26:20
  me." All of those beatings, all of those
• 26:22
  whapons, all of those mockings, all of
• 26:24
  those imprisonments. HE SAID, "NOT ANY
• 26:26
  OF THAT moves me." He said, "I don't
• 26:29
  count my life dear to myself." He said,
• 26:31
  "But I might FINISH MY COURSE WITH JOY."
• 26:34
  And you know what? HE WAS ABLE TO DO
• 26:36
  THAT CUZ HE TOLD TIMOTHY, HE SAID, "I'VE
• 26:38
  FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT. I HAVE FINISHED MY
• 26:40
  COURSE. I HAVE KEPT THE FAITH." YOU KNOW
• 26:43
  WHAT HE DID? HE JUST STAYED WITH IT.
• 26:45
  BLESS HIS NAME. HALLELUJAH. HEY FRIEND,
• 26:48
  YOU CAN STAY WITH IT. I CAN STAY WITH
• 26:50
  IT. PATIENTLY CONTINUE. AMEN.
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  >> How did it continue? Notice the text.
• 26:57
  Acts 26 verse 22. Having therefore
• 27:00
  obtained help of God. I continue. He
• 27:05
  said in the book of 2 Corinthians
• 27:06
  chapter 4, he said, "Therefore, seeing
• 27:08
  we have this ministry of we as we have
• 27:10
  received mercy, we faint not."
• 27:15
  You ain't going to continue without his
• 27:17
  help.
• 27:19
  >> Let me ask you, you got something that's
• 27:20
  real.
• 27:22
  If you got something that's real, you'll
• 27:24
  stay with him.
• 27:26
  >> Amen. I'm not saying you won't mess up.
• 27:28
  I'm not saying you won't make mistakes.
• 27:30
  But I'll tell you this, the Bible says a
• 27:31
  just man fallth seven times, but he
• 27:33
  riseth up again. You won't stay down.
• 27:36
  YOU'LL GET UP AND YOU WILL GO ON FOR THE
• 27:38
  GLORY OF GOD. AMEN.
• 27:40
  >> STEADY, CONTINUENCE. He had the spirit,
• 27:43
  having therefore obtained help of God.
• 27:45
  But I'll say this, he had the
• 27:47
  scriptures.
• 27:48
  You won't stay, you won't stay with it
• 27:50
  without the scriptures. Look what he
• 27:51
  says. I continue this day, witnessing
• 27:53
  both to small and great. Notice this,
• 27:55
  saying none other things than those
• 27:57
  which the prophets and Moses did say
• 28:00
  should come. You know what Paul was
• 28:02
  looking for? He was looking for an
• 28:04
  eternity.
• 28:06
  Right now didn't bother him because his
• 28:08
  eyes wasn't on the right now. He was
• 28:10
  looking for that city. Amen. He was
• 28:12
  looking for an eternity. He was looking
• 28:14
  into the word of God and seeing that
• 28:15
  there's something in this life that's
• 28:17
  better to come. That's why he said in
• 28:19
  the book of Romans, he said that we
• 28:21
  can't even imagine. He said what the
• 28:23
  glory that's going to be revealed in us.
• 28:25
  Amen. When we are with our creator,
• 28:27
  amen, and the scriptures is what allowed
• 28:30
  him to continue.
• 28:33
  >> Paul said, I wish that all of you could
• 28:36
  be as I am. I've got something that's
• 28:39
  real.
• 28:41
  give you this and I'm done.
• 28:43
  He steadily continued. Let me ask you,
• 28:46
  you know what the sad thing is? Next
• 28:49
  year at this time, there may be some of
• 28:50
  you that's here today that won't be
• 28:52
  here.
• 28:54
  You say, "Preacher, does that mean we're
• 28:56
  quit that we quit?" No, it don't have to
• 28:58
  mean that. It could mean that you're
• 29:00
  somewhere else preaching the gospel.
• 29:03
  Could mean that you're somewhere else
• 29:04
  serving God. But you know who determines
• 29:06
  that?
• 29:10
  That's your choice. Notice this. You
• 29:14
  say, "Preacher, I I still I I just
• 29:16
  preacher, I I don't know." Well, I think
• 29:19
  there's one more thing.
• 29:22
  And I'll say this. I've seen this.
• 29:24
  And and scripture even preaches this in
• 29:28
  that rich man that was in hell.
• 29:32
  Notice what the Bible says in verse
• 29:34
  number 29. again after a Grippa speaks
• 29:38
  to him said almost thou persuadest me to
• 29:40
  be a Christian Paul said I would to God
• 29:42
  that not only thou but that all that
• 29:44
  hear me this day were both almost and
• 29:47
  altogether such as I am except these
• 29:49
  bonds I'll say this if you got something
• 29:51
  that's real there's a spiritual cry
• 29:55
  you say what is that well it's a cry to
• 29:57
  lost souls
• 30:00
  that your heart you want them to be
• 30:01
  saved
• 30:03
  you say preacher I I don't know what
• 30:05
  that's like. Well, I tell you this. If
• 30:08
  you live your life and you die lost,
• 30:09
  you'll know what it's like when you get
• 30:10
  to hell.
• 30:12
  >> Right?
• 30:13
  >> Say, "What do you mean?" Well, that rich
• 30:14
  man in Luke 16, remember what he told
• 30:16
  Abraham? He said, "Father Abraham, send
• 30:19
  Lazarus."
• 30:21
  Amen. Send him to my brethren.
• 30:24
  He said, "Lest they come to this place
• 30:26
  of torment." You know, all the while he
• 30:29
  lived his life
• 30:32
  fair and sumptuously every day. The
• 30:34
  Bible says
• 30:36
  living it up and living it well. He
• 30:39
  didn't have a care in the world. But you
• 30:41
  know what? When he got to hell, he got a
• 30:42
  burden for them others that he knew was
• 30:44
  lost. Let me say this. If you're saved
• 30:46
  by the grace of God, you have a burden
• 30:48
  for him. Now,
• 30:52
  the brother said it there just a minute
• 30:54
  ago and it ain't been able to leave my
• 30:55
  mind since he made the statement. He
• 30:57
  said, "We love them people up there."
• 31:00
  Let me ask you something.
• 31:02
  Have you ever loved a sinner?
• 31:06
  Have you ever loved a sinner enough to
• 31:07
  weep tears over their soul? Have you
• 31:10
  ever loved a sinner enough to stay up at
• 31:13
  night praying that they get saved?
• 31:16
  Paul looked all those people in the face
• 31:18
  and he said, "I would to God." That's
• 31:20
  why he said in Romans, he said, "I could
• 31:22
  wish myself were cursed from Christ."
• 31:24
  Paul said, "I wish I myself could die
• 31:27
  and even be lost so my brethren could be
• 31:30
  saved."
• 31:32
  You say, "Preacher, WHAT IS THAT?" HE
• 31:33
  HAD something that was real.
• 31:38
  Every head's bowed and every eye closed.
• 31:42
  You know, I'm afraid of in this day and
• 31:45
  time, we're satisfied with checking a
• 31:47
  box. You come to church, you might even
• 31:50
  have made it to Sunday school this
• 31:52
  morning. You know what you're going to
• 31:52
  do? You're going to walk out here. You
• 31:53
  going to check a box? Well, I made it
• 31:55
  another day. But all around you, at the
• 31:59
  gas pump, at the restaurant,
• 32:02
  at the places you go, even your family
• 32:04
  gatherings, there's people that are lost
• 32:07
  without God. And you are completely
• 32:09
  unmoved.
• 32:11
  You say, "Preacher, what does that say?"
• 32:13
  Well, it does. It says this. It either
• 32:16
  says that you don't care about him
• 32:17
  because you're not saved, or you don't
• 32:18
  care about him because you're not right
• 32:19
  with God.
• 32:22
  Let me tell you this.
• 32:25
  If you're real, it'll break your heart
• 32:28
  when sinners get up and walk out of here
• 32:29
  lost.
• 32:31
  Last Sunday, my heart was broken.
• 32:35
  I'm going to be real transparent with
• 32:36
  you, church. My heart was broken. Not by
• 32:39
  the fact, not so much by the fact that
• 32:40
  sinners got up here and walked out of
• 32:42
  here lost. All them people that wouldn't
• 32:44
  raise their hand, they knew they're
• 32:45
  saved. What broke my heart is is
• 32:46
  seemingly some of you didn't even care.
• 32:50
  Say, why is that? Well, I didn't see no
• 32:52
  tears come on your face. Say, '
• 32:55
  Preacher, well, I don't cry. WELL, WHY
• 32:56
  DIDN'T YOU COME TO THIS ALTAR AND PRAY
• 32:58
  FOR THEIR SOUL? I'M SAYING THESE PEOPLE,
• 33:00
  THAT MAY HAVE BEEN THE LAST CHANCE.
• 33:05
  You're look sitting there in the pew
• 33:06
  looking at your phone. God help you. Let
• 33:10
  me ask you something. Is it real? Is it
• 33:13
  real? If it's real to you, it'll be more
• 33:15
  than one time in six months coming to
• 33:17
  church. If it's real to you, it'll be
• 33:20
  more so than just Sunday morning. It'll
• 33:22
  be more so than even Sunday morning,
• 33:24
  Sunday night, and Wednesday night. It's
• 33:26
  every single day from the time that you
• 33:30
  RISE UP TO THE TIME THAT YOU LAY YOUR
• 33:32
  HEAD DOWN. IT'S REAL, FRIEND. OH,
• 33:35
  FRIEND, I'M SO GLAD THAT IN MY HEART OF
• 33:37
  HEARTS, NO, I'M NOT PERFECT. NOBODY IS.
• 33:40
  BUT IN MY HEART OF HEARTS, I HAVE A
• 33:43
  DESIRE TO JUST DO THE WILL OF GOD, TO
• 33:45
  JUST BE OBEDIENT TO HIM AND TO SEE
• 33:48
  SINNERS SAVED. AND EVERY TIME I WATCH A
• 33:51
  LOST SOUL WALK OUT THESE DOORS, IT
• 33:53
  BREAKS MY HEART BECAUSE I KNOW IT MIGHT
• 33:56
  BE THE LAST TIME.
• 34:01
  Let me ask you, is it real?
• 34:04
  I've got something that's real, church.
• 34:07
  And I don't have to have you to tell me
• 34:08
  that because Jesus done told me,
• 34:12
  >> and if you've got something that's real
• 34:14
  in your life, it ain't going to be me
• 34:15
  that tells you that. Hey, children,
• 34:17
  listen to me. It ain't going to be your
• 34:19
  parents that tell you're okay. It ain't
• 34:22
  even going to be this preacher. It ain't
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  going to be your friends that say
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  there's something different in you. If
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  you're real, you need to mark it down
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  between you and the God of heaven, that
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  he has revealed to you that you belong
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  to him and he has showed you that if
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  you've got something that's real, you
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  have to comply.
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  You have to not only comply, but you
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  have to continue
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  and you're going to have to cry out for
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  sinners. Let me ask you this morning,
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  she begins to play.
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  There's people on this altar praying for
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  you this morning, sinner. You say,
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  "Preacher, I've never been saved. Would
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  you pray for me? Let me ask you.
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  Be real honest, sinner.
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  Has there ever been a day in your life
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  when you repented of your sin?
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  When you truly recognized
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  that you were lost without God
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  and you truly asked the Lord to save
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  you?
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  And let me ask you this. Has there been
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  a difference?
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  Because you know what the Bible says? If
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  any man be in Christ, he's a new
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  creature. Old things are passed away.
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  Behold, all things are become new. Let
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  me let me ask you this. Has there been a
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  difference?
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  Preacher, would you pray for me? I don't
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  know that I'm saved. There's nobody
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  looking around but me. Just be honest
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  between you and God. Preacher, I don't
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  know that I'm saved. Slip your hand up.
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  We'll pray for you. We'll pray for you.
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  There's a whole altar full of people
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  praying for you this morning. You do not
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  need to leave this place lost.
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  Let me ask you this, child of God.
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  How real are you?
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  Say, preacher, I know I'm saved. I know
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  God saved me, but he's dealt with my
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  heart even this morning that I need to
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  draw near to him because he had I know
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  that commission you're talking about,
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  preacher, I'm not doing all that I
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  should be. Preacher, would you pray for
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  me? You just slip your hand up. We'll
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  pray for you this morning. There's
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  nobody looking around but me. God sees
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  that. God sees those hands. Let me tell
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  you this. It's your choice.
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  It's your choice.
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  You are the one that's going to have to
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  decide. Paul looked at a grippa and he
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  said, "I wish that you and everybody
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  here
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  was almost and alltogether such as I
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  am."
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  Why? Cuz I've got something that's real.
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  Let me ask you this, church. How many of
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  you know you got something that's real
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  today? Just slip your hand up and
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  testify to the Lord. Preacher, I know
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  I've got something that's real.
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  Yes. Bless his name. That's good. Praise
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  God. Let me tell you,
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  won't you resolve this week to live it
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  more so than you ever have? Won't you
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  resolve this week? Go find you a sinner.
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  Win them to God.
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  Said, "Preacher, that's hard."
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  No, the hard part's already been done.
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  Jesus took Calvary for you. He died for
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  you. All he asked for you to do is live
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  for him.
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  Give your life to him. Father, Lord, I
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  thank you today for the truth of your
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  word. Lord, I thank you that I know I've
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  got something that's real today.
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  Not because of anything that I've done,
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  but Lord, because of what you've done in
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  me. And Lord, I know without a shadow of
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  a doubt, God, you've made a difference
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  in my life. And I bless your name for
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  that. Thank you for it. I ask, God, you
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  would help us in this invitation.
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  Give us grace and mercy. Lord, we
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  realize that we're nothing without you.
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  God, we know that on our very best day,
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  we're failures.
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  Lord, I've messed up so much. God, I've
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  failed you so many times,
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  but Lord, I know I've got something real
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  in my heart today because you put it in
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  there. And Lord, nobody can take it from
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  me. And I thank you for that. Thank you
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  for giving me life. Thank you for giving
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  me the spirit of God on the inside to
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  guide me into all truth and reveal to me
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  how I am to live through the pages of
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  the word of God. Lord, I thank you for
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  that. God, I pray for these here today
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  that are lost. Lord, you know every
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  heart. God, I pray they wouldn't leave
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  here that way today. And God, for those
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  that need to draw near to you, I pray
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  you'd help them to do so. And Lord, we
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  give you thanks for what you do because
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  we ask it in Jesus name. Amen.
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  >> Thank you for joining our service today.
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  We'd love it if you join us in person
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  the next time you are able at Meadows
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  Baptist Church. Our physical address is
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  2988
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  Stewart Road in Walnut Cove, North
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  Carolina. Our service times are Sunday
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  school at 10:00 a.m., Sunday morning
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  worship at 11:00 a.m., Sunday evening
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  worship at 6:00 p.m., and Wednesday
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  evening Bible study at 7:00 p.m. For
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  more information, visit us at
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  meadowsbaptisturch.com.
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  Thanks again for tuning in.